Four internet giants have teamed up to create a branch of the MySQL database that's designed to handle massive web applications.
The open-source WebScaleSQL branch of MySQL 5.6 was announced by Facebook on Thursday, and uses version 2 of the GNU General Public License. Engineers from Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook have …

Re: minor nitpick correction

> By execution time C dominates because it's mainly at the lowest levels and innermost loops.

Bullshit. You must be a sysadmin.

> How is describing the project as C/C++ incorrect?

The original article - when it was published - stated that MySQL was written in C, which is incorrect. It was subsequently corrected to state that it is written C/C++, which is correct. I don't know if it was corrected because of my original post, or for any other reasons.

well I guess

Much scale, wow, big data, so hip

Funny as you see all these startups using FlapsDB (or some other NoSQL database trending on GitHub) because traditional RDBMS just can't operate at the scale they need. Are you sure about that? Facebook, Twitter, now that's scale.

Or maybe using NoSQL just increases their chances of getting their grubby hipster hands some Silicon Valley dosh, because like Big Data Cloud Internet Of Things is like so hot right now.